RAILWAY CARRIAGES.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16834, 28 June 1926, Page 7

RAILWAY CARRIAGES.

UNIFORM COLOUR SCHEME

(Times Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, Saturday

Hitherto there has been no uniformity in relation to Ihe colour railway carriages are painted in New Zealand, and tin! consequence has been that the railwaj iini.-is oi the Dominion have no distinguishing characteristics as is Ihe ease in other countries. The Hallway Department lias decided that this condition of :ii'riiis shall v: ise lo exist and all carriages are hereafter to be painted a colour that is generally known as "Midland Railway Lake,"

a variety of paint lhal has stood up well lo Ihe climate and smoky conditions of England, and has in addition a rich, distinctive appeaarnco. It is neither wine colour, brick yfi\. nor blood red. but a mixture of all three, and when darkened with two coats of hard varnish if has a rich glow, like lhal of old polished mahogany, yet bright enough lo show up well after a trip through unlimited funnels. une of the difficulties the Department has found in Ihe greens in present use is standardisation, and this trouble will ho riverr ' in ihe distinctive shade of reddish brown for universal Use.